Background
He was born in the village of Bolshaya Talinka in Tambov Governorate.
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Alexander Fyodorovich Avdeev
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There he has graduated from factory-and-workshop school and worked as a metalworker in a foundry. After work he attended an Air club in Podolsk.
Career
He participated in the Soviet-Finnish War (1939–1940) (Winter War). He was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union on 10 February 1943. In the 1930s his family had to move to Lyublino (now a district of Moscow).
In 1938 he joined the army and attended the Borisoglebsk Military Air College.
From the beginning of the German-Soviet War he served on the Leningrad Front with 153 International Association of Prosecutors as a Leytenant and was later promoted to Starshiy Leytenant and Flight commander. In 1941 he claimed 7 victories in 189 missions.
Piloting a Polikarpov I-153 biplane, he shot down a future high-scoring German ace Lieutenant Walter Nowotny of JG 54 over Saaremaa on 19 July 1941 in Bf 109 East-7 (WNr 1137) “White 2” over Riga Bay.
In that fight Avdeev"s plane was also shot down and he subsequently spent a month in hospital due to injuries sustained during the crash.
In August 1942 he served as a P-39 Airacobra pilot on the Voronezh Front. On 12 August 1942 he was the first Airacobra pilot who used a ramming attack to down an opponent. His victim was possibly Fw.
Franz Schulte of 6./JG 77, an ace with 46 victories.
Both pilots were later buried in Novaya Usman", a village near Voronezh.
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Nationality
Russian Empire